9-letter words containing p, o, r, t
- reportage — the act or technique of reporting news.
- reporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- reportion — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
- repositor — any surgical instrument used for correcting the position of displaced organs or bones
- reprobate — a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
- reproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- reptation — a creeping motion; the act of crawling
- reptiloid — having the form or shape of a reptile
- rest stop — a stop made, as during a motor trip, to allow passengers to stretch their legs, use rest rooms, get refreshments, etc.
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rheotrope — a device that reverses an electric current
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.
- road trip — journey in a car, bus, etc.
- root crop — a crop, as beets, turnips, or sweet potatoes, grown for its large and edible undergound parts.
- rotaplane — an aircraft that derives its lift from freely revolving rotor blades
- rotograph — a photograph, esp of a manuscript or book, which is printed white on black
- rotoscope — a projection device that allows images from live-action films to be traced to create an animated sequence
- round top — a platform round the masthead of a sailing ship
- route map — road plan showing where to go
- rustproof — not subject to rusting.
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- septiform — sevenfold
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
- shortstop — Baseball. the position of the player covering the area of the infield between second and third base. a fielder who covers this position.
- shotproof — able to withstand shot
- soft porn — soft-core pornography.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- southport — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England: resort.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- spiration — the act of breathing
- spiritoso — spirited; lively (used as a musical direction).
- spiritous — of the nature of spirit; immaterial, ethereal, or refined.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sporocyst — a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.